Word: thornes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been rioting, or advocating such, in the wake of Dr. King's death. Who do they think they are fooling? In their hearts, Dr. King died a long time ago. They had abandoned him; they had not really cared, obviously, whether he lived or died; he was a thorn in their side. Their actions are not only making sure that Dr. King died in vain, they are going to make sure that his whole life was in vain...
Less than 13% of its land is arable, only about 66,000 of its 2,500,000 citizens have paying jobs and the average income is only $60 a year. The country's only export earners are bananas, hides and scrawny cattle fed on thorn scrub. The only "pipelines" for drinking water are the donkeys that carry it on their backs to the cities from nearby water holes. The country's first five-year economic plan was so modest that Planning Ministry Director Ahmed Botan described it as "a collection of wishes dependent wholly on foreign...
Unfettered by a narrow churchly agenda, delegates to the lay congress were in a mood to tackle more down-to-earth problems. The spirit of the meeting was set by the keynote address of Steering Committee Secretary Dr. Thorn Kerstiens. "We must put questions to the theologians which often coincide with those put by men who are not Christians," he said. "Modern man wants to see things from the viewpoint of his daily existence." As an example, Kerstiens asked delegates to consider such questions as, "What should be our attitude towards revolutionary movements?", and "Is racial discrimination...
...hopeless and whose families have forgotten them. Jean Carmel, the vibrant, charismatic executive director of Wellmet--herself a former director--says that most families with a mentally ill member have struggled so long with the problem that the patient's incomprehensible tantrums and truculence have become "a living thorn in their sides." Therefore when the patient is making no progress under therapy, the hospital can persuade the family to let him be consigned to a back ward and let his therapy be discontinued. Hampered by insufficient personnel, the hospital is often forced to give up on unresponsive patients...
...passengers were out and running. Their faces streaked with camouflage paint, their black and green "tiger suits" blending into the foliage, their black-stocked M-16 automatic rifles at the ready, they faded swiftly into the perennial twilight of 80-ft. trees, impenetrable bamboo thickets, and tangles of thorn and "wait a minute" vines. This was "Lurp Team Two," a long-range reconnaissance patrol (LRRP) of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, sent to seek out two Viet Cong regiments that their outfit was itching to locate, engage and destroy. Within moments, Team Two was itself in imminent danger of destruction...